Galaxy's Edge Magazine by Kevin J. Anderson

Author:Kevin J. Anderson [Resnick, Mike]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: magazine, science fiction, science fiction magazine, short fiction, short story
ISBN: 9781612423814
Publisher: Phoenix Pick
Published: 2017-08-21T00:00:00+00:00

Copyright © 2017 by James Wesley Rogers

Jody Lynn Nye is the author of forty novels and more than one hundred stories, and has at various times collaborated with Anne McCaffrey and Robert Asprin. Her husband, Bill Fawcett, is a prolific author, editor and packager, and is also active in the gaming field.

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A Fading Sun

by Stephen Leigh

DAW Books

ISBN-13: 978-0756411213

This well-crafted novel is set in an alternate first-century Britain, Albann. The real difference from the historical isle is that on Albann druidic magic works.

The southern half of the island has been a conquered by the Mundoan Empire for a generation, which is just as grasping and greedy as was Imperial Rome. The main character, Voada, is the wife of a small city’s second-highest official known as the Hand. The Hands are always chosen from the local nobles and handle day-to-day administration under the supervision of a Mundoan bureaucrat. Socially, the Mundoans look down on and disdain all non-Imperials. Voada’s husband falls ill and soon dies. Being gifted with some magic, the heroine often assists the souls of the dead in finding their way to the next life. When she is forced to do this publicly for her husband’s spirit, it disrupts the Mundoan ceremony and embarrasses the governor. In revenge, she is impoverished and banished, and her children are sold into slavery. Fleeing north into free Albann, Voada is trained to use her magic. Eventually, she comes to lead an army intent on driving the Mundoans completely off their island.

The characters are drawn with admirable depth. Albann’s tribal leaders are often not all that noble or even heroic, and the Mundoan general is even a bit conflicted.

Leigh has developed an original system of magic that fits perfectly with a Celtic-based heroic culture, and often involves weather or death magic. An adept will invoke the power of the ancestors to do her bidding. The plot contains parallels to the real story of Iceni queen Boadicea, but not so many that you can predict the ending. A sequel is already scheduled.

A Fading Sun is a well-told, substantial tale that offers a Celtic feel rife with mystic and magical events. This book will appeal to readers of high fantasy, as well as anyone interested in Celtic Britain or Imperial Rome.

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